Hanover Supervisors Want Water Line Installed

Hanover Township, Northampton County, supervisors last night authorized the release of a building lot at Place and Jacksonville roads, one of four being developed there for single-family homes.

Developer Edward Ruland was urged to install quickly a water line for the four-lot development.

One home has been built, but an occupancy permit has not been granted by the township.

The supervisors were told that the delay with the water pipe stems from unspecified difficulties with the Bethlehem Water Bureau, which oversees water service in that part of the township.

Also last night, the supervisors told solicitor James Broughal to notify the Brith Sholom Congregation of Bethlehem that it is violating an agreement with the township by allowing work trucks to use Macada Road to leave and enter directly the tract where the congregation isbuilding new religious facilities. The trucks are to enter and leave the property via Jacksonville Road during the construction period, the supervisors said.

Once the project is completed, Macada Road may be used by the congregation as an entrance, the supervisors said.

Broughal's letter to the congregation will mention that the violation of the agreement carries a fine.

Supervisors released $8,000 of $14,800 being held in escrow for improvements at the Faulkner Olds automobile dealership along Stoke Park Road. Completion of some improvements is pending, according to township engineer James Birdsall, so the total amount was not released.

Birdsall gave the board plans for the municipal park, and they were briefly reviewed. Discussion centered on ball fields, located on the northern part of the tract, which have been the subject of residents' complaints that baseballs roll onto private properties. They also complain of misbehavior on the part of ballplayers.